yellow-back , auch: yellowback

A yellow-back or yellowback is a cheap novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century.

All of this amateur sociology only disguises their music; dated, boring, yellow-back brands with little sparkle or shine.

I say we fan out and plug every yellow-back we see, and any incidental coppers that maybe are still running around loose.

He perfected the method and became the printer of choice for many London publishers; by 1853 he was the chief yellow-back printer in the city.

But these weeklies were eventually overshadowed by the lucrative trade in "fancy" books, "elegant" engravings and "racy" yellow-back pamphlets.

Labropsis xanthonota (yellow-back tubelip)

Chromoxylography was a colour woodblock printing process, popular from the mid-19th to the early-20th century, commonly used to produce illustrations in children's books, serial pulp magazines, and cover art for yellow-back and penny dreadfuls.

London publisher George Routledge begins publishing the Railway Library series of cheap reprint novels, pioneering the yellow-back genre with an edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The Pilot.

He developed the yellow-back as he disliked the white paper book-covers that became soiled and discoloured; as a result of this aversion he experimented with yellow paper by treating before adding the printed illustration.

Eight Rainbows, twelve Scaleys (including a lutino and a cinnamon), twelve Musks, two Yellow-back (Chattering), two Edwards, two Blue-streaks, five Red-collars, nine Yellow-bibs and one hybrid Rainbow/Scaley.

For many women, the store's little niches and luxurious fitting rooms recalled a time when women had dressing tables and went to tea and gossiped, when women ate bonbons and read French yellow-back novels, when they shopped all day and had affairs.